Active clinical trials for "Spinal Cord Injuries"

The Veteran's Health Administration (VHA) is a national leader in using distance technology to monitor patients' self-care via an in-home messaging device with disease management protocols (DMPs). No such DMPs exist for the community dwelling spinal cord injury/disorders (SCI/D) population. Our objective is to develop the tools necessary for implementing a new home telehealth program to manage community-dwelling veterans with SCI/D at high risk of developing pressure ulcers (PrUs).

The goal of this project is to evaluate the Smart Wheelchair Component System (SWCS) for power wheelchairs and the Smart Power Assistance Module (SPAM) for manual wheelchairs in realistic indoor environments with target users performing realistic tasks. We will combine group trials involving individuals who have a visual impairment (but do not have a mobility impairment) with several single-case studio involving individuals who have a visual and mobility impairment. Our long-term objective is to provide independent mobility to veterans with mobility and sensory impairments.

NI-ES therapy is a treatment that is being studied to potentially treat pain associated with SCI and may help movement below the injury site.

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a kind of severe disease with high morbidity and complications. At present, electroacupuncture has certain advantages in treating motor sensory dysfunction, neuropathologic pain, neurogenic bladder and intestinal dysfunction after spinal cord injury. However, previous clinical studies of acupuncture neglected the brain, which is closely related to the structure and function of spinal cord.So,the aim of this study is to observe and analyse the impact of the changes of gray and white matter volume on whole brain and brain functional re-establish,to reveal the neuroimaging mechanism of improving the motor sensory functions of patients with spinal cord injury, and to provide a theoretical basis for the clinical application of electroacupuncture.

The purpose of this research study is to evaluate an exoskeleton device and mobility skills in the device.

The purpose of our study is to evaluate the perfusion of the IVDs and their diffusion ability by using the Dynamic contrast-enhanced MR perfusion technique and Diffusion weighted image with ADC value measurement, and to determine the relationship between these data and the degeneration of IVDs, the different posture, and different stress-loading status.

This study will compare individuals with acute SCI to control patients in order to: 1. Determine if there are changes in colonic tone and sensation after SCI by comparing the fasting responses to the postprandial responses; 2. Determine if there are changes in colonic phasic motility after SCI by comparing the fasting responses to the postprandial responses; 3. Determine if colonic motor and sensory function after SCI change over time by repeating these studies six month later in SCI and control patients.

Pilot Study of Clinical Safety and Feasibility of the Neuro-Spinal ScaffoldTM for the Treatment of Complete (AIS A) Traumatic Acute Spinal Cord Injury at the C5-T1 Neurological Levels The purpose of this study is to support an expansion to support marketing applications as well as future studies.

To evaluate discomfort of a new coating and catheter material compared to SpeediCath (SC)

This study examines the role of the GABA-B receptor in long-lasting presynaptic inhibition of primary afferents in human participants. Participants will come in for two visits, receiving baclofen (a GABA-B receptor agonist) on one visit and a placebo during the other. Electro-physiological measures will be use during both visit to asses presynaptic inhibition.